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DISPERSED CONCENTRATIONS

Social and material flows across regional landscapes; alternating densities create space for diversity.

THE DISCUSSION

The spreading out of cities necessitates an engagement of territorial dynamics, calling for new scales, materials, and conceptual tools. Is it possible to increase the capacity of the earth to address both a burgeoning humanity and a diverse and flourishing nonhuman world? How are themes such as fertility, food production, and biochemical material flows to be woven into policy and the urbanization process?​